"Intbel" ... "Can't" is not an option.
Compliance is futile. Resistance is futile. Just do your own thing an' ignore 'em.
How about left to right frames set? Sounds much more obvious not only because it's the way it's used in most of the animation programs but also because it's easier to scroll left and right instead of up and down in case you have too many frames. This way you can create several layers with different animation on each (i.e. top layer has one set of frames and layer 2 has second set of frames).
"Intbel" ... "Can't" is not an option.
Compliance is futile. Resistance is futile. Just do your own thing an' ignore 'em.
When creating animated gifs, I always felt that the layer gallery was backwards - having the next animated frame added on top, instead of below. That your first frame was now at the bottom and last frame on top. It would be like having the animated frames run right to left if it were horizontal. Now it's like a film strip, with the first frame at the top, last frame at bottom.
For illustrations, having a new layer added on top makes sense and even then that new layer may be re-inserted between two previous layers. But for animation, the next frame would follow the previous frame and not before. So I guess I'm one who likes this switch.
Not having any experience in Flash animation software, this addition to Xtreme is a plus. For making animated banners and graphics to spice up what would normally be a static web page. So much better than animated gifs and easier to do too. I was surprised at how easy it was.
Last edited by Bob Hahn; 17 November 2006 at 11:07 PM.
•Bob
I did another for my sister-in-law's future site. It's easy to get carried away with these animations
•Bob
Love the simple small file flash animation in Xara,
great quick tool to make nice fading backgrounds and banners and
the file output size is wonderful..
I`d love a scrub bar to move through the preview faster to check
the part of the animation I want to check, as when the animation gets
long it becomes a drag whenever I want to preview (and preview often) and wait until it gets to the part I want to watch, scrub bar to move through it to that part?
layers would rock,
I`d love to be able to warp and morph vector shapes actually, that would be a huge deal for cartooning..
so be able to adjust the position of nodes (points) from keyframe to keyframe,
not add more points or delete them, as this might require more file size? (obvious I`m not a programmer) but be able to pull existing points around on the vector shapes path to adjust the shape,
right now I do the warping by grouping the shape and then stretching squashing it that way..
Also in illustrator they have this tool punk/bloat/nudge?
where you can push against a shape and it nudges the shape around,
like putty, not sure how to describe it..and a twirl tool which is way narly!!
um...can we get that, ...I know theres more important issues to address,
just asking hehe..
looking forward for more to come with flash capabilities...
Testing:
Last edited by Ron Duke; 24 September 2008 at 12:52 AM.
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